IP English (Math) T4

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Instructional Plan/Learning Activities

Content:
Instructional Plan
 Understanding
 Know students will know
 Skills
 MLR
1.
Hook: Dirty Jobs
Learning Activity (Graphic Organizer, Cooperative Learning, Technology):

DAY ONE

pennyforyourthoughts.pdf
* Play life. Have check points during the game where you stop and fill out a GO. Music Playing in background.
LIFEgo.pdf



DAY TWO
  • Create letter to send to parents
  • Take the career quiz and write down results (LINK)
  • HW is to to send the letter to their parents.

DAY THREE
DAY FOUR
  • Work on projects the whole day. Music playing in background.

Artifact: Job Comparison Need GO for project/must have a link/explanation or picture for every word
 Students will understand that research is important, adds to their understanding, and it can sway their opinion.
 collect information for research projects including primary and secondary sources (c1) (letter writing b5)
 compare occupational risk vs. reward
 B5 - Write to convey specific requests for detailed information.

C1 - Students propose and revise research questions, collect information from a wide variety of primary and/or secondary sources, and follow the conventions of documentation to communicate findings.
2.
Hook: Storm Troopers
Learning Activity (Graphic Organizer, Cooperative Learning, Technology):
Artifact: Graph Results(Scribblar)
DAY ONE
  • Preassess? Relate to them. Gossip/rumors/facts/opinions. Give them a scenario and have them tell what's going on. Discuss as class.
  • Read a (misleading) newspaper article about current employment(School Cuts) (TWEET) (JobsInME) >
  • Data scavenger hunt. GO for stats from the site. (a different group?) 1990-2010 (in 5 groups, stats for every two years) Predict for ten years from now. (graph) And discuss in TUMBLR if they think any differently about the article. Who represents the article in the beginning scenario? Graph full time line
 Students will understand that charts and graphs are their own form of information, not unlike text.
 use graphs and charts to represent, organize, interpret, draw inferences, and recognize manipulation from data (data math)
 make sense of tables, graphs, and charts displaying statistics regarding employment
 Data Math - Students make measurements and collect, display, evaluate, analyze, and compute with data to describe or model phenomena and to make decisions based on data.
3.
Hook: Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
Learning Activity (Graphic Organizer, Cooperative Learning, Technology):
DAY ONE
  • Play game, if anyone wins the million, than the whole class gets to play with a million, otherwise they play with the average lifetime wage, make connection to the lottery?
  • Mash Find out statistics for students who graduate from college
  • Budgets Fill out and print (GO?)
Artifact: PicLit
 Students will understand that research is important, adds to their understanding, and it can sway their opinion.
 make comparisons and draw conclusions based on informational texts (a3)
 predict quality of life based on various employment scenarios
4.
Hook: Chaos Theory
Learning Activity (Graphic Organizer, Cooperative Learning, Technology):
DAY ONE
  • Positive/Negative Outlook (walking around the room)
  • Line Game about something?
  • External Factors for success in school (informal groups)
  • What does confidence do to a person?
  • Students will choose one thing, just like the butterflies wings, and create two stories around it, one positive, one negative
    causeandeffect.pdf
Artifact: TimeLine(OurStory)
 Students will understand that research is important, adds to their understanding, and it can sway their opinion.
 write a logical argument (e2)
 consider how their daily choices affect their immediate and long term future
 A2 (career) - Students analyze how positive and negative personal traits, choices about behaviors, and the belief that one can successfully complete tasks/goals affect success in school.
5.
Hook:
Learning Activity (Graphic Organizer, Cooperative Learning, Technology):
DAY ONE
  • Review what we've been learning (fill out first survey thing again, see if there are any differences (GO))
  • A list of things that we still want to know (letters from beginning lesson)
  • A list of questions(GO) for a High School Guidance Counselor, College Representative, and High school Student.
  • Who is our audience and why does it matter?

Three groups of students. Each groups interviews on person and together will present to the class the answers all questions and video reflection.

Artifact: iMovie/GarageBand - Interview
 Students will understand that research is important, adds to their understanding, and it can sway their opinion.
 organize and present information logically either verbally or written
 reflect on their own thoughts about education
 B1 -
Students use a writing process to communicate for a variety of audiences and purposes.
E2 - Adjust volume, tone, eye contact, and gestures to suit the audience.
6.
Hook: Bring in Posters/pamphlets etc.
Learning Activity (Graphic Organizer, Cooperative Learning, Technology):
DAY ONE
  • Go over persuasion a little, what makes a good poster.
  • Audience (in 3 groups, each groups discusses 6th, 7th, and 8th grade audiences) Share with class.
  • Students create their posters. Go over different programs in class.
  • Publish, they will be posted around school and presented to classmates
Artifact: Everyone in the class will create one poster to put up. Must us technology. Must be creative. Offer one fact about their grade, and one general fact. One personal opinion. One website/phone number. (Glogster)
 Students will understand that research is important, adds to their understanding, and it can sway their opinion.
 utilize relevant web programs or software in order to showcase information for multimedial learning
 design informational media to theoretical dropouts
 B5? - Write information purposefully and succinctly to meet the needs of the audience.

E2 - Adjust volume, tone, eye contact, and gestures to suit the audience.
(For Cassie)

Formative

Q - Quizzes
WS - Work Sample
SA - Self Assessment
P - Prompts
O - Observation
D - Dialogues

Product - Summative

CL- Comic Life
IM - Imovie
B - Blog
PC - Podcast
W - Wikispace
G - Glogster